Teaching Strategies and TechniquesAssessing Narrative WritingFormative - Ongoing monitoring of the students, can be informal or to a set structure and can be asking questions, checking for understanding or group discussion. Teachers need to use a variety of formative assessment strategies. Such as those mentioned aboveScreening and diagnostic assessments will also assist teachers in assessing priorknowledgeRunning Records and TORCH

Disadvantages and Advantages of Narrative WritingDisadvantagesNot all students will have early opportunities to read.Students need to be able to read words and have knowledge of meaning of those words.Students need to be able to apply prior knowledge to text and have background knowledge to make reference to.

Advantages Able to create their own visual representations from the text. Able to get involved in the text.Allows students to be creative. Allow for the development of critical thinking.Help build moral development.Enhances self and other discovery and verbal communication.Helps students develop their vocabulary, and writing. (Butcher, 2006, p. 206)

Involving Parents and Guardians Summative - Summative assessment is the final assessment at the end of a unit to check students have understood the unit content.Narrative-fiction or non fiction/personal or informationalChange part of a narrative Simply identifying the parts of a narrativeNAPLAN and Portfolios

ActivitiesSetting:Will be in a schoolPlot:Beginning, Middle and End

What is Narrative Writing?“a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether fiction or non fiction”. Dictionary.comPractice practice practice! Read read read!Encourage parents/carers to read regularly with childrenSuggest activities to do with narrative writing (at home)Write personal narratives (ask your child to write what happened on the weekend, following the structure of a narrative). Use online stories for students to listen to and read along as time can be an issueWhen reading stories to children ask them to identify the parts of a narrative instead of just simply reading

Conflict/Resolution:Will happen in the playgroundCharacters:Has to have 3 charactersIt was my first day in a new school...Each group will be given either characters, plot, setting or a conflict/resolution to build on the starting sentence. REFERENCESButcher, S. E. (2006). Narrative as a Teaching Strategy. The Journal of Correctional Education, 57(3), 195-208. Retrieved from: www.olc.edu/~khecrow/webfolder/Research/Butcher.pdf

Introduce the specific areas of narrative texts the plot, setting, characters, structure, theme, conflict resolution. Break down each Area individually, use modelling, group and guided writing texts through explicit teachingStudents need to be scaffolded and supported in construction of texts through explicit teachingUse of story cards, plot cards, mapping, group discussion, create think sheets as guides to build up the story.Instruct the students in organising their information by modellingUse shared and guided writing, and then gradually release reponsibility to students.

Narrative texts are stories or recounts of personal events. There is a problem or conflict and a resolution.They can be fact or fiction and can be used to inform and share information.Can be a familiar genre to children from nursery rhymes and storiesHave a structureEngages in writing texts with the intention of conveying an idea or message. (NSW.edu au)Make reading fun as well as educational!!!Writing requires generation of an idea/story line, spelling/handwriting, and editing, all of which need to cohere in order to produce a meaningful and elaborate text (Berninger & Winn, 2006).